hot body

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23:34 Jan 22, 2004

English to German translations [PRO]Tech/Engineering / Bildgebungs-Optionen

Explanation:Sorry, I have no idea about the German term (hence my confidence level), but here are some explanations:

'Farbtemperatur' in Harry's second link is not relevant to the question. It - as well as his answer - refers to the white point of a computer monitor. Indeed, it is measured in °K and is related to the hot body temperature concept, but in monitors it only relates to how 'cold' or 'warm' the default white colour of the monitor is. Normally it can be set to several (3 to 5) values between 5000 (warm white) and 9300 (cool white) °K only.

The hot body (or thermal) colour scale, as very well explained in Harry's first link, is a colour range containing only warm colours (yellow, orange, red) and black/white. It can be used for pseudo-colour images that the human eye perceives as natural-looking (like grayscale or monotone/duotone ones), even though they do not represent actual colours.

Note that this is different from the colour range used by the pyrometric temperature measurement method: the hot body colour scale DOES NOT CONTAIN BLUE. Therefore, it is different from 'Farbtemperatur'.

The lack of blue altogether makes it possible to use 16-bit colour (presumably 8 bits for a grayscale channel, plus another 8 bits for the chroma, or colour component channel) and still preserve smooth colour transitions (8-bit means each channel can contain 256 shades - same number of shades per channel as in full-colour modes such as RGB, LAB, CMYK etc.).

I guess in your case, Tikimayer, one can adjust:
- the shades/highlights level (which is the grayscale component);
- the chroma level (which is the 'hot body' component) - i.e. how pale or intensive the colour in the image is; and
- the blending of grayscale vs. chroma channels (this might be meant by 'mixing ratio').

Frankly, I have no guess about 'window values'... maybe it refers to the image dimensions/size?

Thank you very much, the explanation was very useful. I would have liked to award points to both of you. Harry's link helped me a lot. But I finally decided to translate by "Farbe" and give an explanation in one instance. Sorry, I didn't make it clearer that this relatetd to radiation oncology and imaging options.4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

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23 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1

(explanation)

Explanation:Sorry, I have no idea about the German term (hence my confidence level), but here are some explanations:

'Farbtemperatur' in Harry's second link is not relevant to the question. It - as well as his answer - refers to the white point of a computer monitor. Indeed, it is measured in °K and is related to the hot body temperature concept, but in monitors it only relates to how 'cold' or 'warm' the default white colour of the monitor is. Normally it can be set to several (3 to 5) values between 5000 (warm white) and 9300 (cool white) °K only.

The hot body (or thermal) colour scale, as very well explained in Harry's first link, is a colour range containing only warm colours (yellow, orange, red) and black/white. It can be used for pseudo-colour images that the human eye perceives as natural-looking (like grayscale or monotone/duotone ones), even though they do not represent actual colours.

Note that this is different from the colour range used by the pyrometric temperature measurement method: the hot body colour scale DOES NOT CONTAIN BLUE. Therefore, it is different from 'Farbtemperatur'.

The lack of blue altogether makes it possible to use 16-bit colour (presumably 8 bits for a grayscale channel, plus another 8 bits for the chroma, or colour component channel) and still preserve smooth colour transitions (8-bit means each channel can contain 256 shades - same number of shades per channel as in full-colour modes such as RGB, LAB, CMYK etc.).

I guess in your case, Tikimayer, one can adjust:
- the shades/highlights level (which is the grayscale component);
- the chroma level (which is the 'hot body' component) - i.e. how pale or intensive the colour in the image is; and
- the blending of grayscale vs. chroma channels (this might be meant by 'mixing ratio').

Frankly, I have no guess about 'window values'... maybe it refers to the image dimensions/size?

Thank you very much, the explanation was very useful. I would have liked to award points to both of you. Harry's link helped me a lot. But I finally decided to translate by "Farbe" and give an explanation in one instance. Sorry, I didn't make it clearer that this relatetd to radiation oncology and imaging options.